Moving Images programme opens by attention to the atmosphere in which the artists practice the many ways of making and remaking the world. Across two evenings, this inaugural weekend follows four German artists, tracing their methodologies of doing, be it at the city that becomes a studio or a studio that becomes a universe.

On Friday, three portraits move indoors, to the table, the easel and the transparent sheet held up to the light: Jürgen Böttcher visiting the aged constructivist Hermann Glöckner, Böttcher's own hand overpainting a borrowed image, and Jörg Immendorff building a nation onto a monumental canvas.

On Saturday, Ulrike Ottinger returns to the Paris of her youth, where a young woman arrives to become an artist and finds a city already at work upon her. Making here is never solitary. It is shadowed by history, by the state, and by the city outside the window.

Film Partner: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan